New York patient suffers critical personal injury in ambulance accident after the driver allegedly failed to properly strap her to stretcher

Janet Hickey, a resident of City Island in the Bronx, NYC, was recovering from brain surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital and was transferred by ambulance to Phelps Memorial Hospital, for rehabilitation. During the trip between the two facilities, the ambulance that was transporting her crashed into a pole in Westchester County. During the accident, the 60 year old woman suffered serious head and neck injuries that left her brain dead. According to doctors who tried to save her after the accident, the woman wasn’t proprely strapped to her stretcher by the Senior Care Emergency Services ambulance staff. Read more in the New York Daily News